Jean Antoine Dours
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Jean Antoine Dours (22 March 1824 , Bagnères de Bigorre-29 July 1874 Amiens) was a French entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera.
[edit] Works
- Monographie iconographique du genre Anthophora, Lat.,Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France , 2 (Annes 1868 & 1869)1870 (sic).
- Hymenopteres nouveaux du bassin. mediterraneen. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)23, p. 293 -. 312, 349 - 359, 396 - 399, 418 - 434 (1872).
- Catalogue synonymique des Hyménoptères de France. Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France (Amiens), 3, 1-230.(1873) See http://www.archive.org/details/ants_14701 for pages on ants
[edit] Collection
Excepting the material he acquired from Joseph-Étienne Giraud which was returned to that entomologist, Dours collection was burned in a fire in the U.S.A.
[edit] References
Lhoste, J. 1987: Les entomologistes français. 1750 - 1950. - INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) , Paris : 1-355
